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KINDNESS ORG INC

EIN 81-1617915 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$352,926
Expenses 2024
$517,733

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
1350 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS FL 2

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO EDUCATE AND INSPIRE PEOPLE TO CHOOSE KINDNESS. WE DO THIS BY CONDUCTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (THROUGH KINDLAB) AND APPLYING THE FINDINGS TO DEVELOP PROGRAMS AND PRODUCTS FOR KINDER CLASSROOMS (LEARN KIND), COMMUNITIES (LIVE KIND), AND WORKPLACES (WORK KIND). WE THEN STRATEGICALLY PARTNER WITH MAJOR BRANDS TO AMPLIFY THE WORK.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE AND INSPIRE PEOPLE TO CHOOSE KINDNESS.

  • THROUGH OUR RESEARCH HUB KINDLAB, WE CONTINUED RESEARCH ON KINDNESS WITHIN POLICE AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE, THE ROLE OF KINDNESS ON INFLUENCERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA, AND SUBMITTED THREE PAPERS FOR PUBLICATION, AND ONE PAPER ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION. TO DATE WE HAVE GARNERED OVER 600 CITATIONS. LEARN KIND DELIVERED OUR SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) CURRICULUM TO 150,000 STUDENTS IN ALL 50 STATES AND MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES IN THE 23/24 SCHOOL YEAR. LIVE KIND'S PODCAST, WHY KINDNESS?, SHOWCASES STORIES OF KINDNESS AND IS STREAMED IN MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES. WE FINALIZED A NEW PRODUCT EXPERIENCE CALLED THE KQ WHICH MEASURES INDIVIDUAL KINDNESS AND CONDUCTED BETA TESTS THROUGH JAN-JUNE 2024 TO PREPARE FOR A LARGE PUBLIC LAUNCH IN THE FALL OF 2024. WE ENGAGED THOUSANDS OF NEW USERS TO ACTIVATE KINDNESS.

    Expenses $401,726

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jaclyn Lindsey

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Debbie Wasserman

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rana Diorio

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sergio Navarro

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Neil Hutchinson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gelila Bekele

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Katayama

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yukari Pass

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jen Lackard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $352,926
    Expenses
    $517,733
    Contributions
    $352,926
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $989,890
    Expenses
    $1,048,541
    Contributions
    $988,090
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $814,936
    Expenses
    $1,051,166
    Contributions
    $801,689
    Grants paid
    $9,464
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $750,189
    Expenses
    $865,364
    Contributions
    $748,389
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,368,091
    Expenses
    $564,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,041,599

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $107,633
    Expenses
    $371,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,612

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $587,366
    Expenses
    $789,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $509,410

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,203,680
    Expenses
    $823,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $721,377

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,969,110
    Expenses
    $1,646,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $351,369

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $962,108
    Expenses
    $978,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,732

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $58,969 in sales

    2024 Commercial Coventurer

    $4,924 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $487,328 in sales

    2023 Commercial Coventurer

    $32,190 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $158,475 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $8,836 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $423,432 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $26,248 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.